diff --git a/doc/development.rst b/doc/development.rst
index 9bf0b9bb5b61c0d3c1b53fdf6e77fb9265957eda..310a3a62ed1eda666483a3676d0d70df32b04286 100644
--- a/doc/development.rst
+++ b/doc/development.rst
@@ -70,25 +70,21 @@ request. After the branch was merged you can safely delete it::
 Versioning
 ----------
 
-All version numbers for recent Mutalyzer releases take the form 2.0.beta-X
-where X is incremented on release. Pre-release (or development) version
-numbers take the form 2.0.beta-X.dev where 2.0.beta-X is the closest future
-release version.
+A normal version number takes the form X.Y.Z where X is the major version, Y
+is the minor version, and Z is the patch version. Development versions take
+the form X.Y.Z.dev where X.Y.Z is the closest future release version.
 
-Note that we are planning a switch to `SemVer`_.
+Note that this scheme is not 100% compatible with `SemVer`_ which would
+require X.Y.Z-dev instead of X.Y.Z.dev but `compatibility with setuptools
+<http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#specifying-your-project-s-version>`_
+is more important for us. Other than that, version semantics are as described
+by SemVer.
 
-.. A normal version number takes the form X.Y.Z where X is the major version, Y
-   is the minor version, and Z is the patch version. Development versions take
-   the form X.Y.Z.dev where X.Y.Z is the closest future release version.
+Releases are available from the GitLab git repository as tags. Additionally,
+the latest release is available from the `release` branch.
 
-   Note that this scheme is not 100% compatible with `SemVer`_ which would
-   require X.Y.Z-dev instead of X.Y.Z.dev but `compatibility with setuptools
-   <http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#specifying-your-project-s-version>`_
-   is more important for us. Other than that, version semantics are as described
-   by SemVer.
-
-   Releases are `published at PyPI <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wiggelen>`_ and
-   available from the GitHub git repository as tags.
+.. note:: Older Mutalyzer version numbers took the form 2.0.beta-X where X was
+   incremented on release.
 
 
 Release procedure
@@ -101,30 +97,35 @@ Releasing a new version is done as follows:
 
    .. note::
 
-    Commits since release 2.0.beta-X can be listed with ``git log
-    mutalyzer-2.0.beta-X..`` for quick inspection.
+    Commits since release X.Y.Z can be listed with ``git log vX.Y.Z..`` for
+    quick inspection.
 
 2. Update the ``CHANGES`` file to state the current date for this release
-   and edit ``mutalyzer/__init__.py`` by updating `__date__`, removing the
-   ``dev`` value from `__version_info__` and setting `RELEASE` to `True`.
+   and edit ``mutalyzer/__init__.py`` by updating `__date__` and removing the
+   ``dev`` value from `__version_info__`.
 
    Commit and tag the version update::
 
-       git commit -am 'Bump version to 2.0.beta-X'
-       git tag -a 'mutalyzer-2.0.beta-X'
-       git push --tags
+       git commit -am 'Bump version to X.Y.Z'
+       git tag -a 'vX.Y.Z'
+
+3. Push to the GitLab repository (assuming the remote name is `gitlab` and you
+   are working on the `master` branch::
+
+       git push gitlab master
+       git push gitlab master:release --tags
 
-3. Add a new entry at the top of the ``CHANGES`` file like this::
+4. Add a new entry at the top of the ``CHANGES`` file like this::
 
-       Version 2.0.beta-Y
-       ------------------
+       Version X.Y.Z+1
+       ---------------
 
        Release date to be decided.
 
-   Set `__version_info__` to a new version ending with ``dev`` and set
-   `RELEASE` to `True` in ``mutalyzer/__init__.py``. Commit these changes::
+   Increment the patch version and add a ``dev`` value to `__version_info__`
+   in ``mutalyzer/__init__.py`` and commit these changes::
 
-       git commit -am 'Open development for 2.0.beta-Y'
+       git commit -am 'Open development for X.Y.Z+1'
 
 
 .. _nose: https://nose.readthedocs.org/
diff --git a/mutalyzer/__init__.py b/mutalyzer/__init__.py
index 13b87384e1477a19038daeed26019e66516f8fcc..589572219500de154a3a53ecbec9219f725cf254 100644
--- a/mutalyzer/__init__.py
+++ b/mutalyzer/__init__.py
@@ -3,23 +3,18 @@ HGVS variant nomenclature checker.
 """
 
 
-# On the event of a new release, we update the __version_info__ and __date__
-# package globals and set RELEASE to True.
-# Before a release, a development version is denoted by a __version_info__
-# ending with a 'dev' item. Also, RELEASE is set to False (indicating that
-# the __date__ value is to be ignored).
-#
 # We follow a versioning scheme compatible with setuptools [1] where the
-# __version_info__ variable always contains the version of the upcomming
-# release (and not that of the previous release), post-fixed with a 'dev'
-# item. Only in a release commit, this 'dev' item is removed (and added
-# again in the next commit).
+# package version is always that of the upcoming release (and not that of the
+# previous release), post-fixed with ``.dev``. Only in a release commit, the
+# ``.dev`` is removed (and added again in the next commit).
+#
+# Note that this scheme is not 100% compatible with SemVer [2] which would
+# require ``-dev`` instead of ``.dev``.
 #
 # [1] http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#specifying-your-project-s-version
+# [2] http://semver.org/
 
-RELEASE = False
-
-__version_info__ = ('2', '0', 'beta-30', 'dev')
+__version_info__ = ('2', '0', '0', 'dev')
 __date__ = '11 Oct 2013'
 
 
diff --git a/mutalyzer/services/rpc.py b/mutalyzer/services/rpc.py
index 0699ffd83f0ac1719be541bfede7380b1769176c..f80da16e8460ffb6594450151dc449a443faeced 100644
--- a/mutalyzer/services/rpc.py
+++ b/mutalyzer/services/rpc.py
@@ -1135,10 +1135,10 @@ class MutalyzerService(ServiceBase):
         result = InfoOutput()
         result.version = mutalyzer.__version__
         result.versionParts = mutalyzer.__version_info__
-        if mutalyzer.RELEASE:
-            result.releaseDate = mutalyzer.__date__
-        else:
+        if mutalyzer.__version_info__[-1] == 'dev':
             result.releaseDate = ''
+        else:
+            result.releaseDate = mutalyzer.__date__
         result.nomenclatureVersion = mutalyzer.NOMENCLATURE_VERSION
         result.nomenclatureVersionParts = mutalyzer.NOMENCLATURE_VERSION_INFO
         result.serverName = socket.gethostname()
diff --git a/mutalyzer/website/views.py b/mutalyzer/website/views.py
index ecfb6e5c79210eec441bc298cf3a34e63db2f1f1..9bc65ccb36627473560476bf60052882c2f064c8 100644
--- a/mutalyzer/website/views.py
+++ b/mutalyzer/website/views.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def add_globals():
     return {'mutalyzer_version'   : mutalyzer.__version__,
             'nomenclature_version': mutalyzer.NOMENCLATURE_VERSION,
             'release_date'        : mutalyzer.__date__,
-            'release'             : mutalyzer.RELEASE,
+            'release'             : mutalyzer.__version_info__[-1] != 'dev',
             'copyright_years'     : mutalyzer.COPYRIGHT_YEARS,
             'contact_email'       : settings.EMAIL,
             'soap_wsdl_url'       : settings.SOAP_WSDL_URL,